Legal Opinion
Carl E. Thomas v. Guardsmark, LLC
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 5, 2007No. 05-3865PublishedCited by 271 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
On the heels of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Channel 2 news in Chicago ran a story about lax regulation of security guards in Illinois. Carl E. Thomas, a security officer for Guardsmark, LLC (then Guardsmark, Inc., hereinafter “Guardsmark”), appeared in that story and stated that once, while working as a security guard at an oil refinery, he had worked alongside a fellow guard who boasted of having a criminal record. Guardsmark suspended and then fired Thomas for speaking to the media. Thomas brought suit for retaliatory discharge and a jury awarded him…
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